Article: Perfect Timing

When Edward Stone of Bowie retired as chief landscape architect for the U.S. Forest Service a few years ago, he was just a simple "wood butcher" fascinated with his grandfather's old tool box. Then members of a historical society asked him to make some boxes that they could decorate with stencils, and the next thing he knew, he was a clockmaker. "One thing sort of led to another," he says.

Stone makes detailed reproductions of early 19th-century wall and shelf clocks. His specialties are "banjos," so called because of their shape, and "pillar and scroll" clocks, a traditional New England shelf style. Both are delicate and ornate, with lots of gilding and images that have to be ...

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